Elbert Hubbard's Scrap Book: Containing the Inspired and Inspiring Selections, Gathered During a Life Time of Discriminating Reading for His Own Use, Volume 1A collection of more than seven hundred quotations from the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. |
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Page 8
... possible to have the true pictures or statues of Cyrus , Alexander , Cæsar , no , nor of the kings or great personages of much later years ; for the originals can not last , and the copies can not but leese of the life and truth .
... possible to have the true pictures or statues of Cyrus , Alexander , Cæsar , no , nor of the kings or great personages of much later years ; for the originals can not last , and the copies can not but leese of the life and truth .
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... existence of the true villain - the man whose terrible secret is that his fundamental moral impulses are by some freak of nature inverted , so that not only are love , pity , and honor loathsome to him , and the affectation of them ...
... existence of the true villain - the man whose terrible secret is that his fundamental moral impulses are by some freak of nature inverted , so that not only are love , pity , and honor loathsome to him , and the affectation of them ...
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There is no true orator who is not also a hero . -John P. Altgeld . ם O one has success until he has the abounding life . This is made up of the many - fold activity of energy , enthusiasm and gladness . It is to spring to meet the day ...
There is no true orator who is not also a hero . -John P. Altgeld . ם O one has success until he has the abounding life . This is made up of the many - fold activity of energy , enthusiasm and gladness . It is to spring to meet the day ...
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Nyah - if it is true , all right . But you see , my girlthere must be some one to be good . We must have pity on mankind . Christ , remember , had pity for us all and so taught us . Have pity when there is still time , believe me ...
Nyah - if it is true , all right . But you see , my girlthere must be some one to be good . We must have pity on mankind . Christ , remember , had pity for us all and so taught us . Have pity when there is still time , believe me ...
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... the devout worshiper at any shrine reflects something of its golden glow , even as the glory of a noble love shines like a sort of light from a woman's face . — Balzac . HE place to take the true measure of a man SCRAP BOOK Page 15.
... the devout worshiper at any shrine reflects something of its golden glow , even as the glory of a noble love shines like a sort of light from a woman's face . — Balzac . HE place to take the true measure of a man SCRAP BOOK Page 15.
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| Title | Elbert Hubbard's Scrap Book: Containing the Inspired and Inspiring Selections, Gathered During a Life Time of Discriminating Reading for His Own Use, Volume 1 Elbert Hubbard's Scrap Book: Containing the Inspired and Inspiring Selections, Gathered During a Life Time of Discriminating Reading for His Own Use, Elbert Hubbard |
| Author | Elbert Hubbard |
| Compiled by | Elbert Hubbard |
| Contributor | Wm. H. Wise & Co |
| Publisher | W.H. Wise & Company, 1923 |
| Original from | The Ohio State University |
| Digitized | 16 Sep 2022 |
| Length | 228 pages |
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